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Saint of the Day
St. John Boste: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 24, 2023
One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born at Dufton, at Westmoreland, England, and studied at Oxford. Becoming a Catholic in 1576, he went to Reims and received ordination in 1581. John went back to England where he worked in the northern parts of the...
St. Bridget of Sweden: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 23, 2023
Saint Birgitta was the daughter of UpplandÂ?s Lagman, Birger Petersson and his wife, Ingeborg, who was a member of the same clan as the reigning family. BirgittaÂ?s family was pious; her father went to confession every Friday and made long and arduous pilgrimages as...
St. Mary Magdalene: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 22, 2023
St. Mary Magdalene is one of the greatest saints of the Bible and a legendary example of God's mercy and grace. The precise dates of her birth and death are unknown, but we do know she was present with Christ during his public ministry, death and resurrection. She is...
St. Lawrence of Brindisi: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 21, 2023
Caesare de Rossi was born at Brandisi, kingdom of Naples, on July 22nd. He was educated by the conventual Franciscans there and by his uncle at St. Mark's in Venice. When sixteen, he joined the Capuchins at Verona, taking the name Lawrence. He pursued his higher...
St. Margaret of Antioch: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 20, 2023
Nothing certain is known of her, but according to her untrustworthy legend, she was the daughter of a pagan priest at Antioch in Pisidia. Also known as Marina, she was converted to Christianity, whereupon she was driven from home by her father. She became a...
St. Arsenius the Great: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Confessor and hermit on the Nile. Arsenius, who was born in Rome in 354, was the tutor of the children of Emperors Theodosius I the Great, Arcadius, and Honorius. At that time, Arsenius was a Roman deacon recommended for the office by Pope St. Damasus. lie served at...
St. Frederick: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, July 18, 2023
St. Frederick, Bishop of Utrecht, Martyr Frederick was trained in piety and sacred learning among the clergy of the Church of Utrecht. Being ordained priest, he was charged by Bishop Ricfried with the care of instructing converts, and about 825 he was chosen to...
Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 17, 2023
Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 1790 by the Revolutionary...
St. Carmen: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 16, 2023
According to my resources, the name Carmen is a derivation of Carmel which is one of the titles given to Our Blessed Mother, namely, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel, which...
St. Bonaventure: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 15, 2023
St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Feast day-July 15) St. Bonaventure, known as "the seraphic doctor," was born at Bagnoregio, in the Lazio region of central Italy, in 1221. He received the name of Bonaventure in consequence of an exclamation of St....
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Friday, August 18, 2023
Reading 1, Joshua 24:1-13 1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; he then summoned all the elders of Israel, its leaders, judges and officials, and they presented themselves in God's presence.2 Joshua then said to all the people: 'Yahweh, the...
Daily Readings for Thursday, August 17, 2023
Reading 1, Joshua 3:7-10, 11, 13-17 7 Yahweh said to Joshua, 'This very day, I shall begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel so that they will know that, as I was with Moses, so I shall be with you.8 Now, give this order to the priests carrying the ark of...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 34:1-12 1 Then, leaving the Plains of Moab, Moses went up Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah opposite Jericho, and Yahweh showed him the whole country: Gilead as far as Dan,2 the whole of Naphtali, the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, the whole...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Reading 1, Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 10 19 Then the sanctuary of God in heaven opened, and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake and violent hail.1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a...
Daily Readings for Monday, August 14, 2023
Reading 1, Isaiah 58:6-11 6 Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes?7 Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if...
Daily Readings for Sunday, August 13, 2023
Reading 1, First Kings 19:9, 11-13 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night there. Then the word of Yahweh came to him saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'11 Then he was told, 'Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.' For at that moment Yahweh was...
Daily Readings for Saturday, August 12, 2023
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 6:4-13 4 'Listen, Israel: Yahweh our God is the one, the only Yahweh.5 You must love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength.6 Let the words I enjoin on you today stay in your heart.7 You shall tell them...
Daily Readings for Friday, August 11, 2023
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4:32-40 32 'Put this question, then, to the ages that are past, that have gone before you, from when God created the human race on earth: Was there ever a word so majestic, from one end of heaven to the other? Was anything like it ever heard?33...
Daily Readings for Thursday, August 10, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 9:6-10 6 But remember: anyone who sows sparsely will reap sparsely as well -- and anyone who sows generously will reap generously as well.7 Each one should give as much as he has decided on his own initiative, not reluctantly or under...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, August 09, 2023
Reading 1, Numbers 13:1-2, 25-14:1, 26-29, 34-35 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,2 'Send out men, one from each tribe, to reconnoitre the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites. Each of them is to be a leading man of the tribe.'25 After forty days they...